I have to respond to mateo_sancarlos "anger management" comment: He (art8boi) managed his anger quite well, thank you. We all get angry, it's part of being human. What we do with that anger, how we respond to it, determines whether we are civilized (real definition) or not. Yes, I'd have wanted to take his head off, too, along with the almost certainly narrow minded, bigoted, anti-naturalistic jackasses who formulated the policy in a knee-jerk reaction to a non-problem. BUT HE DIDN'T, AND I WON'T, in spite of the fact that I have the ability, training, skill, and, frankly, strong inclination to do so. Why? because I am truly civilized. I, and art8boi, choose to control our response to provocation. The poor sap who confronted him thought he/she was doing the right thing. NOBODY ever sees themselves as the "bad guy" unless they are seriously ill. Even the fictional Hannibal Lector did not.

Absence of ability is not virtue. Ability and abstinence is. Civilization consists, solely, of the ability to kill, and the will to refrain from killing, today. Maybe tomorrow, but not today.

Art8boi, way to go, bro'! Several people have given you some good advice on what to do with the situation, though you hardly seem to need it! Heed it! But don't expect to succeed. You are fighting fear, and fear needs to be confronted and fought, whether in yourself or in others. Just don't expect to win, except within yourself.

All people feel fear and anger. But in whole people, fear and anger have no dominion.